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Cedarville University

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2020

Communication

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Mom, Apple Pie And Sports: Fandom Connects Us With Home, Mark D. Weinstein Dec 2020

Mom, Apple Pie And Sports: Fandom Connects Us With Home, Mark D. Weinstein

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One can scarcely think about the holiday season between Thanksgiving and Christmas without football and family coming to mind. And when Lorin Barnes, a senior at Cedarville University, began interviewing sports fans for her qualitative research class, she was intrigued by the dedication they expressed for the hometown teams they cheered for in their childhoods. Her subsequent research earned the “Top Undergraduate Poster” award at the 2020 Ohio Communication Association (OCA) conference.


Documenting A Trash Dump Community In Ethiopia, Mark D. Weinstein Feb 2020

Documenting A Trash Dump Community In Ethiopia, Mark D. Weinstein

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There are places in the world where people scavenge trash dumps to survive. These people have little hope of improving their lives. Mischelle McIntosh, assistant professor of communication at Cedarville University, is forming a summer mission team to document one such place in Ethiopia.